Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-24

iz.d at Highmsre.
| goods In the territory.
Ysnkton is advertising for bids for the
erection Of n city hall.
Work on the new court house at Aberdeen
is being pushed rapidly.
The Beadle coanty fair commences at Huron
| Wednesday Of next week.
Around West point the wheat crop averages
twenty. ave bushels to the acre.
Ezra Elliot has assumed control OF the Put
ney Messenger In Brown county.
Rev. Father Hair is editing a new paper at
Aberdeen, the Catholic American.
The wheat yield in the vicinity Of Bath is
from sixteen to tweDty-six bushels per acre.
Passenger trains IN the Minneapolis and
Pacific railway are now running into Cakes.
Three horses belonging to Mrs. Frank Dries,
of Vermillion, were killed bylightning Thurs
day night.
One OF the Doodle aldermen OF Chicsgo, who
escaped with q fine of $1,000 visited Yankton
last week.
About q ZOO copies OF the new book on Da.
kota by the commissioner Of immigration,
will be printed.
aAbout %, 900 copies Of the new book on
Dakota, by the commissioner OF immigration
will be printed.
Regular passenger trains are now running
on the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul from
Bristol to Madison.
James McNear, u breakmsn on the North
ern Pacific, was run over by the trait and
killed near Dickinson.
Gov. Church thinks he canno organize
Church and Pierce counties, on account Of an
II perfection In the law.
Huron Is ~jubilant over it's prospects of get
ting cheaper coal by way Of the Manitoba
railroad now building.
The w. G, r. U. held a harvest picnic on
Wednesday at Highmore. Miss Mary Wood
ridge delivered a lecture.
Tuesday, Yankton had 8 large public II eet.
ing, at which the future Of the town and its
! present needs were discussed.
There are ninety-three criminal cases upon
the court calender In Edmunds county, where
Judge Spencer is holding court.
The Wakonda, Clay county, independent
has been moved to Centrev'lle aud the mate.
rial will be used In issuing the Centreville
Journal.
IL. A. Jerauld, Of Lincoln county, has zone
10 California to reside. Mr.. Jerauld was
quite a conspicuous figure in the legislature
when the capital commission bill was passed.
Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, secretary of the
National w. c.. T. u, drew a large audierc.
at WATERFOWL. Sle is now speaking in Da.
kota against license In the local option Fam.
psign.
A letter from DR.. Conkey, president OF the
Duluth, Huron and Denver railroad, says II
has not been sold To the Alinueaye is and
Pa lie, md toere is no probability or tts
being.
The two prisoners WAC escaped from the
United States penitentiary, Esmund and
Powers, at siour Fails on the Sth, were re.
captured Ave m les from Sibiey, Iowa, en
route for Spirit Lake.
Rev Father Pepault, formerly Of the Wa
tertown charge, viii take the Aberdeen
charge, made vacant by the RESIGNATION OF
Rev. Father Hair, who wa, the first Catholic
clergyman Of central Dakota.
The extension Of the Northwestern road 10
Gettysburg has been delayed uotil the first Of
cannot get rails enough to finish up. The
road is now ironed and completed to Seneca,
twenty-five miles east Of Gettysburg.
Some of the yourg bucks Of the YsDktou
Indian agency who opposed the allotment OF
lands In severalty raided the Surveyors
Wednesday. The surveyors asked for pro
lection and troops were sect to their aid. A
majority of the people are loyal and peace
able.
At the special election on the question Of q
division of Lawrence county, the vote of the
portion to be separated was almostunanimous
In Its favor. stuYgis precinct gave sos for
and only 3 against. Alb cut half OF the pre-.
cincts voting indicate 800 for to 500 against.
The vote and the proceedings will 60 10 the
governor for revision.
A correspondent interviewed Van Tassel, OF
the iD,ane asylum board, who intinlated that
If he would let a new man be appointed In
lis place, Gov. Church would approve the
pbahp ttb hG Sybuh ~ Ohs Il
added that he would see the governor Ia the
Internal regions before he would resign with
the charges Of corruption hanging over him.
Tuesday az 4 o'clock Mrs. Frank Dean, Ivy
ing twelve mile from Monango, was filing a
gasoline stove. She spilled the laia on her
clothing and tire caught from .the burners,
She was envelopd In flames, her breast
burned TO a bl ster and her backed chsrrsd.
A twelve-year-old child WAS also badly burned
The excitement caused her to be delivered Of
a still-born child.
Bridge builders of the Fremont, Elxhorn
and Missouri Valley, twenty-one In number,
were arrested at Rapid City Tuesday for forci-
bic entry and trespass on land wcst OF town
owned by John H.. RatcliY and Anton
Viieuche. They were driving piles for the
trestle work approach to the bridge over
Rapid creek. They We're arraigned in justice
court and their cases continued.
Bids for printing the compilation Of the
laws Of the territory were opened ar Sioux
Falls Saturday. There was only three BIDS
In. The lowest was the bid OF 8. I. Clover,
Of Sioux Falls, but 1t WAS withdrawn. The
next !, west was that of Henry Gibson, Of
Omaha, while the highest was submitted by
Morris q Co, Chicago. THERE'S about s1,G0
difference IN each OF the bids, the highest be-